Steam is offering Warframe, the game that inspired Warframe, for free until Saturday

Warframe, a multiplayer third-person shooting game, has been around more than a year and is a huge success. It's often compared to Destiny but its roots go much further back, to a third person shooter called Dark Sector, which was announced in 2000, and released in 2008. If you missed out on it, you can get it now for free via Steam.

Digital Extremes has made Dark Sector free forever, for no reason I can discern other than that it is a holiday and Black Friday. It also wants to remind people about the Warframe: 1999 update, which will be released in December. It's the "wildest update ever" for the game, taking players from the far-future Warframe setting to the end of a 20 ^th Century, complete with '90s Instant Messenger clients, motorcycle stunts and an Infested Space Mutant Boy Band.

Dark Sector will have players take on the role as covert operative Hayden Tenno who, after being infected with the Technocyte Virus, gains "powerful and inhuman abilities that he had never seen before." Now, he has to evolve with his abilities, survive, and be a hero." Rich Stanton of PC Gamer says that Dark Sector is no longer a "legit great 7/10" title, but it's still a "great game." "Waving the death-frisbee at goons never got old." It's also literally free. You can't beat that.

Dark Sector is available on Steam until midnight ET on November 30, 2018.